Conceição Nogueira began her academic career in 1988 at the University of Minho. In 1997 defended PhD in Social Psychology with the thesis "A new look at social gender relations: a critical feminist perspective in social psychology" and in 2011 defended Aggregation with the title Critical Feminist Psychology. The challenges of intersectionality". She is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto, where is director of the Doctoral Program in Human Sexuality. She works in the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies, from a feminist perspective. In recent years (since 2011) has been responsible for introducing Intersectionality, one of the most influential contemporary perspectives in the field of Gender and Feminisms, to the national academic scene. She has published 31 books, around 110 articles in specialized journals and 85 chapters or parts of books. She has supervised 26 doctoral theses and around 40 master's dissertations. She has coordinated 19 research projects. The most current of these are “Sexual Assistance: social representations and public policy recommendations”, “HomeWork: gender inequalities in the reconciliation of teleworking and cohabitation” and “JOVI(GU)AL - Youth Alliances for Gender Equality”. In her professional activities, she has interacted with around 128 collaborators in co-authoring scientific work. She has received two awards and/or honors for her academic work. She currently coordinates a research team of around 20 people at different levels of their career, in different projects and on different themes that converge around critical social intervention in favor of Gender, Diversity and Sexuality issues. She is president of the non-profit association Gentopia - Association for Diversity and Gender Equality since 2018, and in this capacity has also coordinated projects funded by national and international organizations."Protege+: Training and sensitization of professionals for the prevention of female genital mutilation, "DiverGenteS - Affirmative Actions for Diversity, "Functional Diversity and LGBTI People: Awareness-raising, training and research actions". From an early stage, her enthusiasm for teaching intersected with research into social issues, always with an admittedly critical perspective and involvement with the population in a sense of scientific activism. She has participated on several occasions in discussions in the Portuguese Parliament as a recognized expert.